<h1><b>Why AIS?</b></h1><h3></h3><p>When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.</p><ul><li><p><b>Employee Ownership</b>: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.</p></li><li><p><b>Continuous Learning</b>: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.</p></li><li><p><b>Inclusive Culture</b>: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.</p></li><li><p><b>Mission-Driven Work</b>: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.</p></li></ul><p><b> </b></p><h1><b>What are we looking for?</b></h1><h3></h3><p>At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.</p><p><b> </b></p><h1><b>Working@AIS</b><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></h1>At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Infrastructure Architect.
<ul><li><p><b>Core Knowledge & Skills:</b> Architects scalable, resilient solutions; authors roadmaps and blueprints; integrates diverse components; advances automation <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">(PowerShell/Python/Ansible)</span> and governance/policy.</p></li><li><p><b>Work & Complexity:</b> Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk.</p></li><li><p><b>Quality & Independence:</b> Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; produces comprehensive design artifacts; sets and enforces standards with broad autonomy.</p></li><li><p><b>Teamwork & Communication:</b> Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executive‑ready reports.</p></li><li><p><b>Consulting & Engagement:</b> Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities.</p></li></ul>
As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a MS Teams Rooms AV/VTC Solution <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Architect.
</span><h1><b>Project Summary</b></h1><p>AIS is seeking an <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">experienced Microsoft</span> Teams Rooms AV/VTC Solution Architect to lead the architecture, standardization, and enterprise design of conference room collaboration solutions built on Microsoft Teams Rooms. This role is responsible for defining the hardware footprints, technical standards, and reference architectures for a range of conference room AV configurations, ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable, secure, and aligned to business and user experience requirements. The Architect will serve as the senior technical authority for room-based collaboration design, guiding hardware selection, integration patterns, deployment standards, and operational readiness for Microsoft Teams Rooms <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">implementations. </span></p><p></p><h1><b>Key Responsibilities</b></h1><ul><li><p>Lead the architecture and technical design of Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions across executive conference rooms, huddle rooms, medium and large meeting rooms, training rooms, divisible spaces, boardrooms, and specialty collaboration <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">environments. </span></p></li><li><p>Define enterprise standards for room types, hardware footprints, peripheral selections, integration patterns, and support models for Microsoft Teams Rooms. </p></li><li><p>Develop scalable reference architectures for AV/VTC-enabled conference spaces, including displays, cameras, microphones, speakers, DSPs, room controllers, compute platforms, switching, control interfaces, structured cabling, and supporting <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">infrastructure. </span></p></li><li><p>Evaluate and recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms-certified and compatible AV/VTC hardware platforms based on room size, user <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">experience objectives,</span> interoperability, lifecycle, cost, supportability, and enterprise <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">constraints. </span></p></li><li><p>Establish design principles and decision frameworks for room acoustics, microphone pickup, speaker coverage, display sightlines, camera framing, content sharing, and participant <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">experience. </span></p></li><li><p>Architect the end-to-end Microsoft Teams Rooms ecosystem, including room device configuration, Microsoft 365 integration, Teams administration, identity dependencies, management tooling, monitoring, and operational support <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">considerations. </span></p></li><li><p>Provide technical leadership for implementation and deployment efforts, ensuring room designs can be consistently executed across multiple sites and installation teams. </p></li><li><p>Review floor plans, architectural drawings, equipment layouts, signal flow diagrams, and bills of material <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">to validate room</span> solutions before <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">deployment. </span></p></li><li><p>Develop <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">and maintain architecture</span> documents, room design standards, engineering diagrams, implementation patterns, support models, and governance <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">artifacts. </span></p></li><li><p>Serve as the escalation point and subject matter expert for complex AV/VTC and Teams Rooms design challenges, interoperability issues, and deployment blockers. </p></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>Required For This Opportunity</b></h1><ul><li><p>Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Telecommunications, Audiovisual Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">experience. </span></p></li><li><p>8+ years of experience in AV, VTC, unified communications, collaboration engineering, or related technical architecture roles. </p></li><li><p>3+ years of direct experience architecting and <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">deploying Microsoft</span> Teams Rooms solutions in enterprise <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">environments. </span></p></li><li><p>Deep knowledge of enterprise AV system design, including acoustics, DSP concepts, microphone and speaker design, signal flow, room control, switching, display systems, and user experience <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">optimization. </span></p></li><li><p>Deep knowledge of VTC concepts and room-based conferencing design, including camera coverage, media quality, interoperability considerations, and conferencing <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">workflows. </span></p></li><li><p>Demonstrated experience defining hardware standards and room technology footprints for multiple conference room types and use cases. </p></li><li><p>Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Teams Rooms design,</span> configuration, deployment, and lifecycle <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">management. </span></p></li><li><p>Experience developing architectural standards, reference designs, engineering documentation, and implementation guidance for enterprise collaboration <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">platforms. </span></p></li><li><p>Strong understanding of infrastructure dependencies such as <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">structured cabling,</span> PoE, switching, network readiness, QoS, and endpoint <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">connectivity. </span></p></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>Nice to Have Skills</b></h1><ul><li>Experience leading large-scale Microsoft Teams Rooms programs across multiple offices, campuses, or enterprise <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">facilities. </span></li><li>Familiarity with Teams Admin Center, Teams Rooms Pro management, device telemetry, monitoring, and operational <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">governance. </span></li><li>Experience with major AV/VTC vendors and ecosystems such as Logitech, Poly, Crestron, Extron, Shure, Biamp, Yealink, Neat, Cisco, or equivalent <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">platforms. </span></li><li><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">Experience operating in</span> highly regulated, security-conscious, or mission-critical environments <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">where room solutions</span> require strong documentation, standardization, and controlled change <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">practices. </span></li><li>Understanding of facilities coordination, construction fit-out considerations, low-voltage design, <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">and installation vendor</span> <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">management. </span></li><li>Microsoft, AVIXA, CTS, CTS-D, or related collaboration/AV certifications are <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">preferred. </span></li></ul>
At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">member.
The</span> targeted base salary range for this role is $138,000-$209,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">location.
We</span> value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;">process.
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